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  3. Posted · Edited by colorful人生

    They really need to omit the whole "Peace Be With You" + handshake thing when half the church is coughing their asses off. Immediately came down with a shitty cold the next day, and I'm still having to take Dayquil... Need to replace the holy water with some hand sanitizer. 

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  4. Posted · Edited by colorful人生

    Akira from F.A.B (Free Aqua Butterfly), who was one of the guitarists of Pengking, tweeted that he was told by police it was only a collapse from a heart attack at the time. Took about half-a-month from the efforts of Hikaru (also Gt.) and a handful of other people to finally get media attention on the incident.  Shit sucks, man : ( .

     

     

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  7. Posted · Edited by colorful人生

    it's a play on Royz' "Kuroageha" in the form of "Kuroageman". Kuro (Black) + Ageman which is a woman who brings good luck to men (?) As for the blackface, it's likely just the 黒ギャル (Kurogyaru) style (I could be stretching and it's probably just for color-sake, like literally the color black), which can be a bit off-putting. It's entirely based on a literal name-pun, and they somehow came up with enough content to make song, lmao.* 

     

    Honestly, this is more entertaining than Royz' recent offerings o3o .

     

    *I feel like they focus entirely on the nameplay/"luck" aspect here, but I'm not recognizing/understanding any actual Royz references (outside the visuals and music), if any exist.

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  10. Posted · Edited by colorful人生

     

    YO- They finally made CHAO IN SPACE like 20 years later. This warmed the cockles of my heart, enough to where I broke out my old SA2B save file I ripped from my GC memory card many years ago via Wii homebrew. This chao, "Anakin", could possibly be as old as some of the members/lurkers here (got the game in early '03.) I never had pets growing up, so this was the closest thing to them att. Spent many, many hours in the Chao Garden...

     

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  16. Posted · Edited by colorful人生

    I've kinda mulled over this topic for a while now, but it's quite strange how the prominent Western (predominantly American) YouTubers are so insistent on speaking on the behalf of YouTube as if it was "theirs" the whole time (most of that understanding solely experiential.) 

     

    Yes, constant coverage of these "YT Armageddon" topics are obviously for quick revenue, so maybe they purposefully gloss over the reality of it on-screen, but YT has always been a platform for everyone (including large companies.) My experience w/ 2006~09 YT was not just gag comedy, but a majority niconicodouga re-uploads, music videos, random shit people posted online, and TV/DVD/VHS content split into 5 parts (with at least one part taken down for some reason.)

     

    Currently, everyone tries to up their "relevancy" on what they perceive as the whole "platform", but if you take the time and switch between countries (many of which are beyond their actual reach/scope), you'll see how little crossover there  is in trending content because people naturally like what's culturally relevant & understandable (language). The fact that the "Worldwide" setting disappeared several years ago should be a clear sign how large these country/region-based communities have grown (to the point where "worldwide" is too big/broad to make sense.)

     

    One counter-argument is that only the top 3% of channels make 90% of the revenue, which has a large concentration of English-speaking YouTubers (I could be wrong on that stat) concerned about the system. So they have the largest stake in what YT does, but if you look at the data a bit closer, the breakthrough mark for 3% starts out at only $16k in annual revenue. This implies that the actual number of prominent voices (those dependent on stable, actually livable revenue) are that much smaller and effectively makes the remaining >97% of channels (perhaps closer to the 90% mark) hosts for the same plain 'ol mish mash of unmonetized content that's been on the site for years. Even if large creators leave, even making noise on the way out to alternative platforms, new ones will take their place on the platform b/c YT continues to be a large, centralized place for viewership, brimming with those looking to be part of the <3%.

     

    TL;DR: Not trying to diminish large creators naturally fending for themselves and their collectives, but the whole idea that YouTube is on the path to impending disaster is a seriously flawed argument. They'll keep growing unfettered until they're regulated as a monopoly for internet-video content, but even that's tricky b/c "video streaming content" currently includes the likes of Netflix, Hulu, etc. and YouTube also serves large production content (Red) which muddies that distinction. It's like how many in the U.S proclaim that Facebook is just a dying haven for MLM hunnies and crotchety boomers without realizing the platform's continued significance in the Asia-Pacific market where, for example, India's active user-base has more than doubled to 300 million since 2015 (additionally outranking user totals in the U.S by over 10 million.)

     

    Bigger TL;DR: YouTube and the major SNS players are literally too big to fail for the foreseeable future.

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  17. Posted · Edited by colorful人生

     

    ...which led me to the original song...

     

     

    The first video surprised me b/c I swore up and down it sounded like a vk song. Turns out Asaki was the vocalist+guitarist of the band Blanc Neige before doing Beatmania stuff w/ Konami. I need to spend some time sifting through his discog, since I'm not willing to shell out $15/month for beatmania IIDX INFINITAS (to play on PC.) I think I've played at least one of his tracks on Pop'n for PSP, so I need to pick that game up again.

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  22. Posted · Edited by colorful人生

    Started re-binging a bit of Hikaru Utada after both references here and coincidentally cleaning up my collection (which includes the United 2006 Live DVD.)

     

    However, I have to show my appreciation for the peculiar "Miracle Hikaru", one impersonator that does such a good job it creeps me the fuck out in the best way possible. My favorite interaction between the two of them here (Utada-san basically cringing into a corner w/ Miracle going crazy w/ the "boke" act) :

     

     

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  23. Posted · Edited by colorful人生

     

    Even since I got this rec in my feed, I've been playing/learning tech for srb2kart (server specific setups/addons/FAQ here).  The game is basically a fanmade sega-themed brutal version of mario kart. The newer low-poly models bring the game together, and I probably wouldn't have been as convinced to pick up the game if they didn't exist. 

     

    Other than that, just Project Diva Future Tone Arcade (PC) and working on tech w/ Umihara Kawase Shun. I don't really find myself wanting to dedicate all my time to one game b/c it saps a bunch of my time (reminded how I put at least 500+ hours between BoTW and FFXV ...)

     

    I'm def. wanting to pick up one of the game-randomizers though like ZWWR (Wind Waker).

  25. Posted · Edited by colorful人生

     

    Actually doing this on the original PSP PD where you basically have to belt this shit out w/ one hand (minus some of the notes present in the arcade ver.) Seems to be a yearly Christmas tradition to torture my right hand, but fun nonetheless. 

     

    BONUS:

    Spoiler

    been on that weeb stuff lately ~(o3o)~

     

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